Short stories, American books

The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers

The King in Yellow is a late‑nineteenth‑century American collection of short stories that blends speculative…

The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story

The volume is a bibliographic anthology that gathers the most noteworthy American short stories published in…

The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story

The volume gathers the most notable American short stories published in 1917, accompanied by a comprehensive…

The best short stories of 1919, and the yearbook of the American short story

The volume is a curated anthology of American short fiction published in 1919, accompanied by a comprehensive…

Shapes that Haunt the Dusk

Shapes that Haunt the Dusk is a collection of American short stories assembled by Harper’s Novelettes and…

Children of the Tenements

Jacob A. Riis

Jacob A. Riis’s Children of the Tenements is a collection of short, reportage‑style stories drawn from his…

Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day

Americans All is a curated anthology that sets out to map the breadth of American life through the short…

The best short stories of 1925, and the yearbook of the American short story

The volume is a dual‑purpose compilation that gathers the most noteworthy American short stories published…

Shorty McCabe on the Job

Sewell Ford

Shorty McCabe on the Job is a bustling urban caper set in early‑twentieth‑century New York, presented as a…

Friendship Village

Zona Gale

Friendship Village is a collection of short stories that paints a portrait of small‑town life in…

A Chosen Few: Short Stories

Frank R. Stockton

Frank R. Stockton’s A Chosen Few gathers a series of American short stories that blend domestic observation…

Montezuma's Castle, and Other Weird Tales

Charles B. Cory

Montezuma’s Castle, and Other Weird Tales is a short‑story collection by Charles B.

Sonnie-Boy's People

James B. Connolly

Sonnie‑Boy’s People is a collection of short sea stories that opens with a vivid, sun‑baked scene on a…

Mosses from an old manse

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The work is a short‑story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne that opens with an elaborate, almost lyrical…

The best short stories of 1922, and the yearbook of the American short story

The volume is a curated anthology of American short fiction published between October 1921 and September…

The best short stories of 1918, and the yearbook of the American short story

The volume is a scholarly anthology that gathers what its editor, Edward J.

The best short stories of 1921, and the yearbook of the American short story

This volume assembles what its editor deems the most vital short fiction published in American periodicals…

Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)

Woolson, Constance Fenimore; Bunner, H. C. (Henry Cuyler); De Forest, John William; Foote, Mary Hallock; Willis, Nathaniel Parker

The volume opens with a self‑conscious narrator who, fresh from a literary triumph and a comfortable life in…

The Best American Humorous Short Stories

The volume presents a curated selection of American short stories whose chief aim is to combine literary…

The Open Boat and Other Stories

Stephen Crane

The volume gathers Stephen Crane’s short‑fiction, a blend of gritty realism and stark naturalism that…

Can Such Things Be?

Ambrose Bierce

The work is a short‑story collection by Ambrose Bier Bierce that opens with a dense, almost sermon‑like…

The Four Million

O. Henry

The Four Million is a slice‑of‑life narrative set in turn‑of‑the‑century New York, catalogued as short‑story…

Roads of Destiny

O. Henry

Roads of Destiny is a short‑story collection set in a nineteenth‑century French‑influenced world, though its…

Flappers and Philosophers

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Flappers and Philosophers is a short‑story collection by F.